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Driver says he was rear-ended, shoving his car into a house on Woodrow Avenue in Dorchester
A man drove into at house at 167 Woodrow Ave. in Dorchester around 2:15 a.m. The driver, who was able to get out of his car and stayed on scene, told police he was hit from behind, forcing him into ...
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Whole lotta shakin' goin' on from earthquake off Maine coast
Reports coming in from all over (Roslindale, Jamaica Plain, Melrose, the South Shore and the North Shore) of some shaking around 10:25 a.m.
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The Boston waterfront's missing letter
No, not R, but T. T Wharf used to extend out from what is now Christopher Columbus Park, as an extension to Long Wharf (which ...
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The frozen waterfall near the end of the Orange Line
The other day, Greg Cook took the Orange Line to Oak Grove, then walked about 15 minutes up to the Cascade, a 40-foot ...
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Woman stabbed on Polk Street in Charlestown
A woman was stabbed in an apartment at 25 Polk St. in Charlestown's Bunker Hill development around 11:40 p.m. She was taken to a local hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.
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Where there's smoke there's fire, unless it's a Red Line train with an overheated motor
A Braintree-bound Red Line train had to be evacuated at Park Street shortly after 2:40 p.m. after an overheated motor began emitting enough smoke to have Boston firefighters come running, only they ...
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Masked man sought for trying to steal crashed satellite in Downtown Crossing
WFXT reports that yesterday morning, some guy in a masked tried making off with the satellite smashed into an Altima on Washington Street downtown - tearing it off the car and dragging it a few feet ...
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Driver takes out traffic signals at busy Dorchester intersection
Sometime before 7:40 a.m., the driver of a Corolla slammed into a traffic-light pole on the southbound side of Blue Hill ...
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MBTA says the Red, Orange Lines could go faster miles an hours
The State House News Service reports the MBTA thinks all that track work on the Red Line means they could soon get those trains up to 50 m.p.h. - and that on at least one stretch, the Orange Line ...
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UMass Amherst looks to develop 16 acres it owns in Newton
Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller reports UMass Amherst is looking to see if any developers might be interested in doing something with 16 acres of prime land just up the road a bit from the Boston line at ...
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Man shot to death on Ridgewood Street in Dorchester
A person was shot in the back and left side shortly after 7:20 p.m. at 73 Ridgewood St., off Draper Street in Dorchester. Read more.
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Massachusetts AG picks her first fight: Birthright citizenship
Among the flurry of executive orders issued by the new president today is one that declares people born on American soil are no longer automatically US citizens, because he says so. Read more.